Jan
14
(unrelated question) How do you read on chemistry and other physical science?
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I think I read rather slow beacuse of my attention span and bad short term memory.
How can I get better at reading? How can I read faster but at the same time remember more?
Im not going to do anything this summer and I want to take sometime to read a whole general chemistry book, to refresh my memory on old basic stuff and learn new stuff(hopefully prepare for physical chemistry: thermodynamics and advance inorganic chemistry for next semester). But I suck at reading?!?
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ohhh physical chemistry. I’ve got to do that next year as well as I dropped this year to prepare more. Read what your doing, pay close attention to figures, they’re generally very helpful, and then write. Make sure you can apply it.
It’s impossible to read chemistry as fast as you do literature or history, but the more you know about chemistry, the less you have to think about as your learning new things.
In general, reading alone is not an effective study strategy. One way to make it more effective is to write up a summary of each chapter with pencil and paper. It takes much more time but it pays off. Writing about it makes you think about it more and it stays with you more. The other thing is to work the problems in the book. More is better.